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Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchligh – South Dakota is one of six states that hasn’t applied for a federal grant program to support solar energy projects around the nation. The Solar for All initiative aims to lower utility costs [Read More…]

The Census Bureau has proposed a major change to disability questions on its annual American Community Survey that advocates say will reduce the number of people who are counted as disabled by 40%, including millions [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that the Attorney General’s Office’s proposed legislative package for 2024 features five bills including separate legislation to regulate the drug Xylazine, add fentanyl protections, and make [Read More…]

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories on a South Dakota News Watch and Chiesman Center for Democracy poll that surveyed 500 South Dakotans on a variety of political topics. Stories will [Read More…]

Apple Tree Children’s Center West in Sioux Falls, initially slated for closure along with three other locations, will now continue its operations under new ownership. Former executive director Pete Nelson has taken on the business’s [Read More…]

In a late-night incident around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, two neighboring Sioux Falls homes in the 6100 block of W. Chickadee Place were shot multiple times, with one home hit three times and the other [Read More…]

The AgOutlook Conference in South Dakota brought together soybean producers earlier this month to discuss crucial factors influencing their industry. Tregg Cronin, a speaker at the conference, highlighted the impact of South American weather, Argentine [Read More…]

Lincoln County, S.D.- A 27-year-old Brandon, SD man died Sunday morning in a single vehicle crash in Lincoln County. The name of the person involved has not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash information indicates a man driving [Read More…]

A 34-year-old man died in a head-on collision on Interstate 90 in western South Dakota after driving westbound in the eastbound lane on Saturday morning. The incident occurred a mile east of Wall, resulting in [Read More…]

Stu Whitney/South Dakota News Watch SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – As Gov. Kristi Noem continues a $6.5 million advertising campaign to attract more workers to South Dakota, her Department of Labor and Regulation is cutting positions [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight BROOKINGS — Four university degrees will be discontinued at South Dakota Board of Regents institutions and two programs will be consolidated, according to a recent program productivity report presented to the [Read More…]

On Saturday, a 55-year-old man, Lemuel Renard Bell, was arrested by the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office in Sioux Falls. He allegedly attempted to steal a vehicle, brandishing a suspected weapon, and assaulting the driver at [Read More…]

State government boards approved $20.64 million in bonds, loans and grants to private businesses and communities during meetings this month. Members of the Board of Economic Development and Economic Development Finance Authority are appointed by [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight – A lot of research happens underground, from physicists searching for tiny particles to geologists studying tectonic movements of Earth’s crust. But those disciplines are not necessarily communicating with one another. [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight – Legislators spent long hours last summer digging deep into specific issues deemed potential priorities for the 2024 legislative session, including long-term care, funding for county governments and legal representation for [Read More…]

A standoff in Sioux Falls unfolded Thursday when authorities attempted to serve a warrant to a woman in her 40s, leading to her making threats about having a weapon. The incident prompted the closure of [Read More…]

WASHINGTON — The massive annual defense policy package cleared Congress ahead of the holiday recess, despite protests about attaching a foreign surveillance extension and criticism that the bill did not block a Pentagon abortion policy. [Read More…]

A fatal traffic collision occurred in Sioux Falls, where a 50-year-old man, identified as Byron Cardona, lost his life after being struck by a school bus. The incident took place at the intersection of West [Read More…]

Editors note: This is the first in a series of stories on a South Dakota News Watch and Chiesman Center for Democracy poll that surveyed 500 South Dakotans on a variety of political topics. Stories will [Read More…]

Authorities in Rock County, Minnesota, responded to a call about a possible deceased person in a ditch around noon on Wednesday, discovering 76-year-old William Krotzer of Luverne on 141st Street north of Beaver Creek, who [Read More…]